Lateef Butler was 23 when he was shot and killed outside his apartment building on Nepperhan Avenue in Yonkers on June 26, 2020. The shooting happened just after 6 p.m. and followed an ongoing dispute with a neighbor, Terrence Gonzalez. Security camera footage captured the encounter; the video shows Gonzalez using a .38 caliber revolver to shoot Butler five times, hitting him in the neck, chest, hip and thigh.

Butler was taken to St. Joseph’s Medical Center and was pronounced dead on arrival. Gonzalez fled on foot but was later apprehended in the Saw Mill River near Stefanik Park; officers recovered the handgun, which had been discarded under a bush. Gonzalez was indicted on Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, and the surveillance video was used at trial.

Does anyone have information about Butler’s life in the Nepperhan Avenue community or about the dispute that led to this fatal encounter?